1. Conference Synthesis
What was your biggest
takeaway from REDDex?
*Please note, the following quotes are from REDDeX participants and do not
necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Nature Conservancy
July 15, 2010

2. Choose from one of the following categories:
1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management

3. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
I have learned that it is important to have a
clear message for external audiences on
why all this matters, to build the framework
for support…

4. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
What is the appropriate long-term funding
for low-carbon development
strategies/opportunities?

5. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
REDD is part of low-carbon development, it
has to be incorporated as such…

6. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
REDD is a sustainable development strategy
more than a conservation initiative…

7. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
REDD+ is not a sector, there is no REDD+
ministry…

8. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
REDD+ is a complex mechanism/goal/strategy
within an even more complex setting of low
carbon development. Back to basics – keep in
mind what the basic thing is: to leave the trees
standing…

9. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
REDD is at least as much about economic
development as it is about forest
conservation…

10. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Learn lessons from the past…

11. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
There is no viable conservation plan if it
does not include a development
proposition…

12. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
[The strategy] needs to be so ambitious that
it has the potential to really change the way
the world works. We need more internal
capacity to deal with external factors…

13. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Education at all levels is necessary to change the
paradigm of development – that carbon is a new
value making sustainable development
worthwhile. But it takes time and commitment
to build these systems…

14. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
If REDD eventually becomes seen in the context
of low-carbon development, then:
1) the complexity and timeframe of REDD just
expanded greatly
2) National-scale REDD becomes less likely to be
appropriate and province scale more likely

15. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
It takes much more time, resources and
planning than I had anticipated…

16. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Engagement of key stakeholders and
capacity building are key elements to set
the right conditions to get REDD+ to work…

17. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
I want to see how benefits will be shared
with local communities because that is
what my audiences will care about…

18. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
No rights, no REDD,
No REDD, fewer rights…

19. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
To ensure local stakeholder involvement,
you need to focus on local ownership…

20. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Strengthening capacities, coordination and
cooperation of stakeholders promoting
communities participation are necessary to
lead a REDD project…

21. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Where is community?

22. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Stakeholder engagement needs to happen
at every stage of the main phases of REDD
Program Design and Management… local
empowerment is key!

23. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Money is the least of our problems…

24. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
We have to find ways to talk to donors
about this work that are sufficiently
informative to engage but not too complex
to make projects seem confusing…

25. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
How do we manage expectations between a
developing world eager and waiting for
REDD money and the still non-existent
international commitments…

26. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
We propose two mechanisms around REDD+:
1) Local sustainable financial markets in
payments for ecosystem services
2) Establish a community fund in order to
decide locally the projects that would be
best to invest the resources

27. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Simultaneous, multi-level, multi-sectoral,
multi-stakeholder involvement is a
prerequisite…

28. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Sometimes it is not about getting more
money, but making the financial
mechanisms that are already in place more
efficient…

29. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Discussion of “nesting” of national/sub-
national has not occurred in the US. The US
is behind many REDD countries (also for
LCD planning and forests)…

30. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
More than a method needs to be
considered for baselines…

31. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
MRV is a good priority for our work in
Para…

32. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
REDD is a good idea and is possible, but there is a lost
piece. We need urgently to translate our thoughts and
ideas to others, not just us. #4 needs to be translated,
communicated and understandable to others. That is
the best part of this meeting – there is a clear path to
the future, and my mission is to let people know…

33. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Let’s create MRV systems as soon as possible, for REDD
and other low-carbon development priority areas…

34. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
It was interesting to hear the perspective that national
baselines are likely to be a completely negotiated
process without reference to any empirical data. To the
extent baselines are set at sub-national levels, using an
empirical basis, it is unclear how these ultimately will
“add-up” to a national level…

35. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
We need to have more suitable institutional
arrangements that could increase local
ownership…

36. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
There is scope for real government to
government cooperation – not just
financing; national governments have
unique expertise in developing national
systems…

37. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Need to apply break-through decisions…

38. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
I much better understand the legal and
institutional linkages among the
international, national and sub-national
scales…

39. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Legal and institutional linkages among sub-
national government actors…

40. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Building a collective understanding on how
to make the complexity of REDD as simple
as possible (if possible)…

41. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
How does the comprehensive nature of
low-carbon development strategies achieve
near-term, concrete successes?

42. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
The “planning phase” needs to be much
shorter/quicker…

43. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
I learned that knowledge management and
information sharing/lesson learning is
actually a key component to the success of
a REDD+ program, not just an afterthought
or add-on…

44. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Addressing the complexity of REDD+ will
really require a lot of leadership and smart
problem-solving, decision-making and
information management…

45. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Only the simplest interventions to remove
the most critical constraints – best advice
ever…

46. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Spatial data is needed for the design phase of a
program (info on who has rights, jurisdiction and
landuse), not just the accounting and MRV stage
of a REDD project. This means collaboration and
coordination among multiple owners of
geospatial data for countries must be shared…

47. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Commitment is needed for program design and
analyses…

48. 1. Low-carbon Development Strategy
2. Stakeholder Involvement/Benefit Sharing
3. Finance
4. Accounting Methods and MRV
5. Legal and Institutional Frameworks
6. Program Design and Management
Improvement of strong skills and capacity are
critical in establishing program design…